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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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In the Netherlands, gasoline shortages due to wartime restrictions have led taxi drivers to use bicycles with carts and meters, competing with horse carriages. Consumption dropped from 10 million to 2 million gallons monthly, with business booming at night. Even physicians use bikes, and tandem bikes with chauffeurs are fashionable.
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AMSTERDAM, Dec. 30.—Strict control of gasoline distribution in the Netherlands has forced many taxi drivers to shelve their cars and mount bicycles. They have fastened small carts with a double seat to their bicycles and have attached taxi-meters to them. Principal competition comes from old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages with top-hatted drivers. Business is particularly good after 9 p. m. when street cars stop running. The Netherlands normal monthly gasoline consumption once was ten million gallons, but this now is restricted to two millions and will be reduced even more. Of 200 million gallons of gasoline on hand when the German army marched into Holland approximately 26 million gallons still are available to the Dutch. The bicycle business is humming and manufacturers hardly can keep pace with the demand although every second Dutchman already had a bicycle. Even physicians now make their calls on bicycles. It is fashionable to have a tandem bicycle with the chauffeur at the handlebars.
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Netherlands
Event Date
Dec. 30.
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gasoline consumption restricted to two million gallons monthly from ten million; 26 million gallons remaining from 200 million pre-invasion stock; bicycle business booming.
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Strict gasoline control forces taxi drivers to use bicycles with carts and meters; competition from horse carriages; good business after 9 p.m.; manufacturers can't meet bicycle demand; physicians use bikes; tandem bikes with chauffeurs fashionable.